This paper, presented at the 2001 Physics Education Research Conference, discusses the physics education research group at Rensselaer which is working to develop an assessment tool that will measure the problem-solving...

This paper, presented at the 2001 Physics Education Research Conference, the authors investigate the effects of instructional approaches in microcomputer-based laboratories and video-based labs in an undergraduate...

This web page, authored and curated by David P. Stern, provides the lecture notes for an overview of Kepler's laws. A section is devoted to each of Kepler's three most prominent theories. It includes historical notes...

This is the third and final article in a series of reviews of three standard mathematical productivity packages. This article uses computation to directly compare the software packages' use for educational purposes. The...

This page is an overview of the impact of computers on the field of physics. Are computers absolutely necessary for research, especially in physics? In 1987 the Nobel Prize for physics went to Alex Muller and Georg...